The Nanny State: First, They Came for…

While Valerie writes from Hawaii, saying "They'll have to pry my McDo meal from my cold, dead hands", Damien Bennett adds:

First Nanny came for my neighbor's saccharine, and I did nothing.

Then Nanny came for his cigarettes, and I turned away.

Next Nanny took my trans-fat, and I moved out of state.

Now Nanny is closing in on V de HI's Happy Meal.

Are we men (please make gender substitution of your choice) or are we DEMOCRATS?!

Ammo-up!
(If Eric Holder is reading this, it's just an expression. A trope. All in good fun.)

Biden Magic: Why in God's Holy Name would anyone trust or comply with the Biden régime's mandated vax?

In view of a post noting that not a single newspaper seems to have made a detailed comparison between the pandemics of 2002 and 2009 on the one hand and the 2020 outbreak on the other, one American citizen has decided to pick up that very challenge, and who is it but Damien Bennett? (All brackets in the piece below are by the author.) As it turns out, says our international correspondent, …

It is not so hard to piece together the comparison …

• The 2002–2004 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), infected over 8,000 people from 29 different countries and territories, and resulted in at least 774 deaths worldwide.
  
• The 2009–2010 pandemic of swine influenza, caused by H1N1 influenza virus and declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) from June 2009 to August 2010, is the most recent flu pandemic involving the virus ... The number of lab-confirmed deaths reported to the WHO is 18,449, though the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic is estimated to have actually caused about 284,000 (range from 150,000 to 575,000) deaths [worldwide]. A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the risk of serious illness resulting from the 2009 H1N1 flu was no higher than that of the yearly seasonal flu.
  
• The COVID-19 pandemic...is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). ... Official deaths from COVID-19 generally refer to people who died after testing positive according to protocols. These counts may ignore deaths of people who die without having been tested. Conversely, deaths of people who had underlying conditions may lead to over-counting. As of 8 October 2021, more than 4.83M [upward guess 5.9M] deaths have been attributed to COVID-19. The U.S. death count to date is 710,178, so prorated over the 2-year pandemic span ~355,089/deaths per yr.
• For comparison, "CDC estimates that seasonal flu has resulted in 9 million – 41 million illnesses, 140,000 – 710,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 – 52,000 deaths annually  between 2010 and 2020."

SO -- comparably 2002 SARS is insignificant; 2009 H1N1 is commensurate with seasonal flu. U.S. WuFlu appears 6X more lethal than high-end seasonal flu lethality. (Wait! Not so in Canada!). However if you have followed the CDC WuFlu bulletins, and I'm sure you have, analyses and modelings have been a royal botch and the numbers garbage. Short story, if your comparative article were ever found or written how persuadable could it be given the crap data must originate with the clueless CDC?

Let me make a case for why the Biden regime can no longer persuade.

We have been repeatedly knowingly egregiously lied to by this regime, by its CDC, by WHO, by big pharma. We have had big media and big tech suppress, distort, and deny relevant and vital information. We have had know-nothings, who clearly do not understand the manufacture and nature of these vaccines, pushed into positions of furtherance and censure and punition. The vax-hesitant or no-vaxxers are canceled in the public square, are maligned, threatened, harassed, assaulted, wished for dead or to suffer the cruelest deprivations and losses. Eminent doctors, epidemiologists, virologists, anyone with the scientific chops whose informed opinion urges caution or questions the safety or efficacy of the regime vaccines -- all are excluded from the public square, many being canceled, investigated, suspended, or fired. 

Faced with vax mandates, no-vax healthcare workers are resigning or being fired during what the vax pimps want you to believe is a national public health emergency. Wait! These aren't ignorant MAGA red cap clingers? Why are medical professionals vax-hesitant or no-vax? Well, shut up, the vax pimps explain. 

Biden: "When you see headlines and reports of mass firings, and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story...United went from 59% of their employees [vaccinated] to 99%..."

Yes, well, fire the 41% of your workforce who won't take the jab and -- Voilà! -- the remaining workforce is almost wholly jabbed (99% -- who are the 1% hold-outs?)! It's more Biden magic, like $3.5T in spending that costs zero dollars. Bigger story here than the consequences, folks. [Hard sigh.] He really is this stupid.

Biden: "We're making sure [i.e., mandating] healthcare workers are vaccinated because if you seek care at a healthcare facility, you should have the certainty that the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you."

But of course there is no such certainty. You can be fully vaxxed and become reinfected and be reinfected and asymptomatic. You can be fully vaxxed and contract a variant and be asymptomatic. None of the WuFlu vaccines of a certainty prevent you from contracting or spreading the virus or a variant. Why doesn't Biden know such relevant uncontroverted baseline information?* What the vaccines can do is "significantly reduce the risk of severe illness and death."

* Any answer to any question regarding Biden's comprehension or competence or any necessary aptitude, begins: First off, Joe Biden is an idiot...

Just remember, once you are fully vaxxed, there is an endless Biden booster regimen in the works.

Alright. [Long deep breath.] Given all the above -- most particularly the corrupt incompetent mendacious Biden regime all in a huff and losing patience with bratty no-vax me -- why in God's Holy Name would I -- would anyone -- trust or comply with their mandated vax? Personally I am beyond any conciliation with the Biden regime. They are liars, and sloppy lazy liars at that. They don't comprehend baseline information. They are unaccountable for anything, not Afghanistan, not inflation, not the border, nothing. Lastly, Joe Biden is an idiot.

Related: Here Is the Key Question Regarding the Coronavirus
• And here are the 7 Basic Points about Covid-19 that You Need to Know
• Is the Yellow Star Really an Inappropriate Reference for the Vaccine Passport?
And from the March 2020 and April 2020 archives:
• Is There 100% Irrefutable Proof that the Covid19 Pandemic Is Overstated?
• Anti-Americanism in the Age of the Coronavirus, the NBA, and 1619

GET SERIOUS in 2024: 20 GOTV (Get Out To Vote) Posters and Illustrations Can Be Downloaded Early This Year; For Free

From Damien Bennett, we have an announcement that GOTV (Go Out To Vote) Posters and almost two dozen spot illustrations can be downloaded early this year in hopes that they will be used to "decorate more refrigerator doors and kitchen cork boards" until "seriosity take[s] hold across the land." 

This cycle's theme is 'GET SERIOUS', because clown world would not have us serious. 

 … The GOTV poster is nonpartisan and encourages red people and blue people and green people, the independent, and the wishy-washy – all qualified American citizens – to register, inform themselves, and vote.

The 20 spot illustrations (shouldn't there be 24?!) include

Triple Secure Ballot [see directly above]; Spoiled Ballot; Duplicate Registration Fraud; Dead Voter Fraud; Lost’ Ballot;  Mail-in Fraud; Destroyed Ballot; Vote Reassignment’ Hack

"A FREE ZIP of the 2024 GOTV poster and the portfolio of editorial spot art can be downloaded" at the link

The Walz Pick: Was the Democrat 'deep bench' nothing but bottom scrapings? And will Tampon Tim be Eagleton-ed?

Damien Bennett can't figure out the Walz pick. 

Honestly, I can't. The Democrat 'deep bench' was nothing but bottom scrapings apparently. Can someone help me out here?

• Walz Describes GOP Ticket As 'Weird' August 6, 2024
• NPR: Democrats Embrace ‘Tampon Tim’ Walz Nickname August 7, 2024

• Tim Walz Chose Wedding Date to Coincide with Tiananmen Square Anniversary, Then Honeymooned in China August 7, 2024
  
• Tim Walz: ‘One Person’s Socialism Is Another Person’s Neighborliness’ August 6, 2024
  
  
• A-Walz: Kamala’s Running Mate Broke Pledge to Deploy To Iraq in 2005: ‘I Have A Responsibility To Serve … If Called On’ August 7, 2024
  
• timwalzforuscongress.org, March 20, 2005 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ...He has been previously deployed during his 23 years in the National Guard, including an eight month deployment during Operation Enduring Freedom. ... Although his tour of duty in Iraq might coincide with his campaign for Minnesota’s 1st Congressional seat, Walz is determined to stay in the race. “As Command Sergeant Major I have a responsibility not only to ready my battalion for Iraq, but also to serve if called on. I am dedicated to serving my country to the best of my ability, whether that is in Washington DC or in Iraq.”
  
• National Guard Disputes Walz's Military Bio; CNN Calls Out 'Absolutely False' Claim Over Deployment August 8, 2024
  Minnesota National Guard spox Army Lieutenant Colonel Kristen Augé: Walz, Kamala Harris' vice presidential running mate, was demoted and did not retire as a command sergeant major as he has claimed for years - including on his official gubernatorial biography - as he failed to complete a 750-hour course in the Army's Sergeants Major Academy, a mandatory course for E-9s, the Army's highest enlisted rank. [N.B.: Anonymous MNG spox credibly challenges this claim at Task & Purpose.]
  CNN correspondent Tom Foreman: "[T]here is a difference between being in a combat area, being involved at a time of war and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you. There is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was. So that is absolutely false... The campaign has essentially come forward to say, ‘Look, he had a long career, he would never want to purposely mislead people about this.’ It’s what campaigns tend to say."
• Harris Campaign Website Scrubs Walz’s Rank, Escalating Stolen Valor Scandal* August 8, 2024
  * There's plenty of phony (and this) in Walz's characterization of his military service, but using 'stolen valor' as a club is plain wrong. Stolen valor in law specifically refers to someone who "fraudulently holds himself or herself out to be a recipient of [various specific medals awarded for valor]." As far as I've read, Walz has made broad service and rank claims but has not claimed any medals, specifically not the medals covered in H.R.258. If you know different, please clue me, otherwise stick with the cold facts, not the hot rhetoric. If you argue a broader abstract concept of 'stolen valor' your blue friends will argue H.R.258.

There are quite a number of stories about his politics and record, a lot of gush but also a lot of onions -- actually bushels of onions, which are being reported on both defensively and also aggressively. That's a surprise. It's not one Walz hymn book.

Other than baggage Walz doesn't bring much to the ticket.

• Poll: Only 17% Of Americans View Tim Walz Positively August 6, 2024
  The 17 [favorable] and 12 [unfavorable] percent marks appear to be so low because many Americans (71 percent) have never heard of him before or are unsure how to rate him.
  
• Tim Walz Fails To Inspire Swing State Voters: ‘He Makes Tim Kaine [!] Look Exciting’ August 6, 2024
• MSNBC Data Guru Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Dems After Walz Pick August 6, 2024   
  MSNBC data analyst Steve Kornacki: “When you look at what Tim Walz actually pulled off to get elected, to get re-elected in 2022, it’s the Biden model, demographically, regionally. You go county by county, there’s not much variance between how Walz did and how Biden did. ... Now go into greater Minnesota, let’s take a look at, like, Stearns County here. Look, Walz lost this by 23 points. What did Biden lose it by? 23 points. And this is the kind of county, by the way, in Minnesota and across the Midwest here, that Democrats are hoping Walz will help them with. ... So, the Walz victory in 2022 looks like what is now a standard Democratic victory in Minnesota: Heavy reliance on the Twin Cities metro area and taking big losses in greater Minnesota. The Democrats’ hope is that he’s going to appeal to the blue-collar areas in these other three states [i.e., Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.], maybe he will, but when you look at what he’s done in Minnesota, you don’t quite see that."
• NBC Analyst: Walz Doesn’t Broaden Democrat AppealTo Blue-Collar Voters August 7, 2024

Low-to-no name recognition; no pull with vanishing key black, hispanic, Jewish, and youth demos; no base beyond metro Minnesota; no star power, no eye candy, no charisma, nothing compelling but his negatives.   

I don't get it. One theory is that Walz is so obviously the wrong choice that KA-mala easily made the pick.

 MSNBC’s Wallace: Kamala Harris ‘Is Running A Flawless Campaign’ August 6, 2024

I don't get it. Help me out. 

Let me close with a couplet of election year shit polls:

• Poll: Harris Outperforms Biden And Leads Trump Nationwide By 4 Points August 8, 2024
• National Poll Shows Trump/Vance +5 over Harris/A-Walz August 8, 2024
  

Fuck off, polls!

Trying to help Duncan out, Duncan answers as follows:

I'm in complete agreement with your assessment of Tampon Tim. However, the MSM has strong counter-narratives working full-time.

For example, CNN (sorry for the vulgarity) suggests the attacks on Walz's military service is just "Swift Boating" a la the anti-Kerry campaign.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/politics/tim-walz-service-swift-boat-attacks/index.html

When I ask my Lefty friends about Walz, they are mostly unaware of all the dirt this guy drags around. Narratives work until they don't (sharp as a tack Biden). So, a politically astute friend of mine thinks Walz will be Thomas Eagleton-ed...not necessarily for the same reason but something that is both sympathetic and disqualifying.

He suffered from bouts of depression throughout his life, resulting in several hospitalizations, which were kept secret from the public. When they were revealed, it humiliated the McGovern campaign, and Eagleton was forced to quit the race.

When you compare the MSM efforts to prop up the Harris/Walz campaign to your extensive collection of real Walz negatives just in this email, I too wonder how can people choose to be so stupid?

Why We Hate The 'News Media' — a thorough accounting of the propaganda machine

May 5, 1970 - Berkeley, California, USA: Protester wearing gas mask throws tear gas back at the police
during protest at the University of California at Berkeley against the Cambodian Incursion of the War in Vietnam.
Photo by Stephen Shames

What exactly is the ‘news media’?

asks Damien Bennett, as he gives what DB Hill calls "a thorough accounting of the propaganda machine" by Democratic Party operatives with bylines.

We are meant to believe it is an impartial, nonpartisan, agendaless recorder of facts of the day. [Coffee snort shoots out the nose.] No retelling of something seen -- filtered through everyone from an originating witness to stringer to downline transcription to ante-hoc 'fact checker' to copy desk to proofreader to bureau chief to the publisher's shadow -- no retelling is without a POV, a slant, by the time it is mantled with a headline. It has always been so. But today's ‘news media’ has no authentic POV. Everyone is -- quite literally -- on the same scripted page. There is no originating 'reporter', instead there are hidden fabricators, who create and shape 'news' fictions for -- Influencers. Flavorists. Propagandists.

• NPR Says It Won’t ‘Waste Our Time’ Covering Hunter Biden Laptop Story October 22, 2020
  Terence Samuel, NPR’s managing editor: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions. And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was … a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.”
• Glenn Greenwald: With News Of Hunter Biden Criminal Probe, Don't Forget The Media Outlets That Peddled The 'Russian Disinformation' Lie December 10, 2020
• WaPo, NYT Refuse To Return Pulitzers For Spreading Lies About Russia Collusion Hoax May 27, 2023

The ‘news media’ is today in the business of peddling, peddling junk 'news'. It is the Temu of propaganda. It does not report on new developments, it shifts and shores up narratives. The 'news media' and its creatures have taken their thirty pieces of silver, but unlike Judas Iscariot, who hung himself in shame for what he wrought, the 'news media', au contraire, is looking forward to prizes, bonuses, creative management contracts, speaking tours, and book deals -- everywhere the rattle of the shill's buy-me-pay-me begging bowl.

BEGIN HERE. Your lying eyes:

• Joe Scarborough (MSNBC): ‘F-You’ If You Don’t Believe THIS IS THE BEST BIDEN EVER March 6, 2024
  “Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell you the truth. And f-you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.”
• WaPo: ‘Cheapfake’ Biden Videos Enrapture Right-wing Media, But Deeply Mislead June 15, 2024
  The Republican National Committee posts a clipped video. Then the New York Post, the Telegraph and other pro-Trump outlets follow suit with the same deceptive framing.
• The Guardian: Videos Of Biden Looking Lost Are A Viral Political Tactic: ‘Low-level Manipulation’ June 19, 2024
• France24 (AFP): ‘Cheapfakes’: Out-of-context Videos Target Biden's Age June 19, 2024
• NYT: How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden As He Battles Age Doubts June 21, 2024
• NYT Backtracks, Admits ‘Hard To Imagine’ Biden Could Have Run U.S. For Another Term December 19, 2024
• Telegraph: The Truth About The Joe Biden Cover-up Is Finally Starting To Emerge April 19, 2025

Continue. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE... (a merest sampling)

• Media Reportedly Pushed 25Th Amendment To Be Invoked 600+ Times Against Trump. What About Biden? [Spoiler: 1] July 9, 2024
• Despite Shooting, ABC, CBS And NBC Blast Trump With 95% Bad Press September 18, 2024
• ‘The Entire Room Is White’: NY Magazine Cries Racism After Cropping Black People Out Of Trump Party January 28, 2025
  The article, titled “The Cruel Kids’ Table,” falsely peddled the claim that “the entire room [was] white” at a pro-Trump event hosted by GOP Youth Advisory Council Co-Chair CJ Pearson—a black conservative.
• The Two Jakes: Split Video Proves Tapper’s Hypocrisy In Discussing Presidential Mental Fitness February 27, 2025
  ...Tapper was indignant at that thought of someone without a medical degree daring to claim that Biden was in cognitive decline.
• Receipts Don’t Lie: Drew Holden Slams Jake Tapper’s Cash-Grab Book On Biden’s Mental Decline February 27, 2025
• Ian Miles Cheong On X April 17, 2025: NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher on the truth: “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.”
  [The entire talk here; money quotes start at 03'17".]
• Study: Media Gaslights Americans With Misleading Term [“Maryland Man”] For Illegal Immigrant Gangbanger Over 500 Times  April 21, 2025
• Staying on Script: The Legacy Media Coordinates Messaging With The DNC And Here’s How We Know (WATCH) April 28, 2025
• Collin Rugg On X April 28, 2025: Former CNN reporter Chris Cillizza says journalists were *not* covering up Biden's mental decline but were rather just too trusting of the Biden White House. Cillizza: "I think it was an inherent and sort of unconscious bias more than a conscious bias."
  [Also from Chris Cillizza.]
• Republicans Keep Trying To Make Biden’s Mental Capacity An Issue August 19, 2021 Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
• Glenn H. Reynolds: At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Fake Remorse Over Biden ‘Mistakes’ April 28, 2025
• Emma-Jo Morris: The White House Correspondents Dinner Taught Me That Media Bias Isn’t About Politics, Just Insanity  April 30, 2025
• Chuck Todd Claims Establishment Media ‘Didn’t Miss The Story’ On Biden’s Mental Decline April 29, 2025
  Todd: “And it’s this horrible sort of pitting different news organizations against each other when ultimately the people at fault are Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, every elected member of Congress.”
• AYFKM? WHCA's 2024 Photo Of The Year Says Everything About Why The Legacy Media Is Dead April 29, 2025

2024 WHCA Picture Of The Year. No. Really. NOT This.

• ‘60 Minutes’ Report That Prompted Trump Lawsuit Is Nominated For An Emmy Award May 1, 2025
  Last fall’s “60 Minutes” story on Kamala Harris — the subject of Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS — was nominated for an Emmy Award Thursday for “outstanding edited interview.” Trump, in his lawsuit, complained that the interview was deceptively edited to make his Democratic election opponent look good.
• ‘Aging Happens Quite Quickly’: Jen Psaki Claims She ‘Never Saw’ Biden Decline May 3, 2025
• NYT: ‘Chilling Parallels’ Between Third Reich And Trump’s Second Term May 3, 2025
• Trafalgar Group Pollster Robert Cahaly: Media Pushing Fake Polls To Pressure Congress May 4, 2025
  [Apparently over half the country is lying to itself.]
• Media Fail — Trump Job Approval Rises 4 Points To 53% April 6, 2025
• CNN’s Enten: Regretful Trump Voters Do ‘Not Exist’ April 16, 2025
• CNN Data Analyst Harry Enten's Brutal Numbers On Trump Approval Will Devastate Dems May 2, 2025
  Enten examined who people thought would be doing a better job as president: Trump or Kamala Harris? "Trump continues to score a higher percentage of the vote than Kamala Harris!" Enten explained. He said they've continued to see it in "poll after poll."

The hem of the reckoning.

• ABC News, Stephanopoulos Settle Defamation Lawsuit With Trump, Pay $15 Million, Apologize December 14, 2024
• Trump Cancels State Department Subscriptions To NYT, AP, Reuters [et al.] February 19, 2025
  On Feb. 14, a follow-up memo directed procurement teams to prioritize the cancellation of contracts with six major news organizations: the Economist, the Times, Politico, Bloomberg News, AP and Reuters. ... Earlier this month, the Trump administration ordered the General Services Administration (GSA) to terminate all media contracts, including subscriptions to Politico, BBC, E&E and Bloomberg.
• Jeff Bezos Announces Significant Shift In Washington Post Opinion Page Direction February 26, 2025
• Jeff Bezos On X February 26, 2025: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. 
• CNNLOL Wiped Out (Again) In Quarterly Ratings April 5, 2025
       TOTAL PRIMETIME VIEWERS / DEMO VIEWERS
       Fox News: 3.012 million (+46 percent) / 380,000 (+63 percent)
       CNNLOL: 558,000 (-6 percent) / 121,000 (-1 percent)
       MSNBC: 1.024 million (-18 percent) / 96,000 (-21 percent)
• Trump And CBS News Agree On Mediator To Settle $20B ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit April 8, 2025
• Disgraced Crybaby ’60 Minutes’ Executive Producer Resigns In A Snit April 23, 2025
  [Click link for roster of media shills fired, resigned, snit quit, squeezed, canceled, or demoted. Add Jennifer Rubin and Taylor Lorenz, both out at WaPo.]
• Paramount Chair Shari Redstone Throws Down After ‘60 Minutes’ Producer Resigns: Media Must ‘Give The Facts, Not Opinions’ April 23, 2025
• Public Broadcasting Exec Resists Trump Order To Defund NPR: 'WHOLLY INDEPENDENT' Of The Federal Government' May 2, 2025
  ['Wholly Independent' but needy.]
  In the 2025 fiscal year alone, NPR and PBS received around $535 million from the federal government.
• NYT Mocks Rural California Town For Not Using Mainstream Media May 4, 2025
  [Why might that be?]
• Trust In The Media Hits All-time Low In 50 Years March 1, 2025
• 71% Believe Media RIG POLLS To Fit Political Agenda April 29, 2025

An augury.

SOVEREIGNTY Wins The 2025 Kentucky Derby, Beating Favorite JOURNALISM May 3, 2025

And it turns out it wasn't just the WHCA Picture Of The Year. It is also the Pulitzer Prize in "breaking news photography."

Isn’t it funny that they gave the award for the one on the left? https://t.co/iwL5KTzoet

— The Gas Stove 🔥 (@TheGasStovee) May 5, 2025

The "Gayest Olympics Ever": Twenty minutes into the future 2009 & 2024

 Damien Bennett can hardly be described as being impressed by the Olympic Games in Paris:

Twenty minutes into the future 2009:

We Are All Socialists Now [Newsweek] February 6, 2009

Twenty minutes into the future 2024:

‘Gayest Olympics Ever’: Paris Olympics Opens With Suggested Bisexual Threesome July 27, 2024

Hat tip to DH who clued me to #Paris2024.

Oh, and then there is this:

Apparent Drag ‘Parody Of Last Supper’ At Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony Sparks Controversy July 26, 2024

The Olympics said the performance was an “interpretation of the Greek God [of wine and festivity] Dionysus” to make “us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.”

These stupid f*cks -- a key feature of a Dionysian bacchanal was sparagmos:

"In Dionysian rite as represented in myth and literature, a living animal, or sometimes even a human being, is sacrificed by being dismembered. Sparagmos was frequently followed by omophagia (the eating of the raw flesh of the one dismembered)."

These stupid f*cks know nothing, absolutely nothing. Not a one with a passing acquaintance of Euripides:

Pentheus Torn Apart By His Mother Agave And Auntie Ino

Academia has given us generations of cos-play know-nothings preening around the edges of make-believe telling the rest of us what's what. Generations of morons, who, thankfully, haven't it in them to procreate. There is no fixing this. There's only 'wait them out to die out'.

Ladies and gents, something to paste in your God-Take-Me-Now photo album, courtesy of #Paris2024 -- future Jesus:

Twenty minutes behind and closing:

Dutch Beach Volleyball Pro And Convicted Child Rapist To Be Isolated At 2024 Olympics Amid Outcry July 26, 2024